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VETERINARY SURGICAL DEVICE.

No. 381,491. Patented Apr. 1'7, 1888.

Cad Z76 SS @5 are TATES IRVING IV. BENEDICT, OF COBLESKILL, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- FOURTH TO HENRY SITTERLY, OF SAME PLACE.

VETERINARY SURGlCAL DE vlCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ZPatent No. 381,491, dated April 17, 1888.

Application filed June 17, 1887. Serial No. 241,681.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRVING W. BENEDICT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cobleskill, in the county of Schoharie and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Veterinary Surgery, of which the followingis a specification.

Thisinvention relates to veterinary surgery, and particularly to means whereby 1nasturbation is prevented.

The object of the invention is to devise an appliance which may be readily placed in position 011 the stallion without any inconvenience to the animal, and which will not interfere with his freedom of movement or prevent his lying down in comfort, and which will effeet the object in view-to wit, the prevention of masturbation-without any injury being sustained by the stallion.

The invention is described hereinafter, and its novelty indicated in the claims at the end of this specification.-

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which like features are indicated by like letters of reference in both views, Figure 1 is an elevation in perspective of an appliance embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a side view of a part of a stallion, showing the manner in which my invention is designed to be employed.

Referring to the drawings, the letter A represents a plate or shield of any suitable material, preferably of leather or rubber, and sufficiently flexible to enable it to be placed flat against the belly of the horse, immediately in front of the horses sheath and to conform to the rounding shape of the belly. At the back of the shield A, and preferablyintegral therewith, are the extensionsB B, which, when the shield is placed in position, fit around the horses sheath, where the latter is connected to the belly. The object of this construction is to prevent the shield from being displaced laterally when once secured in position. (See Fig. 2.)

The letters a a indicate the front of the shield A, b b the rear portion, and c the intervening hollowed-out space produced by the extensions B B, which hollowed-out space 0 will be of dimensions suitable to fit comfortably the sheath (Modehl of the stallion for which the appliance is intended.

0 represents the guard, which is composed of rigid material-such as metal or leatherand is of a shape substantially as indicated in the drawings. This guard G is riveted or otherwise attached to the bottom of the shield A by means of the braces c 0, formed integral with the guard and serving to strengthen the same, and it is so connected to the shield A as to depend therefrom perpendicularly at its front, sufficiently removed from the animals sheath, and thus serve as an obstruction between the penis and the stallions belly.

The appliance may be held in place on the stallion by means of any convenient attachment--such, for instance, as the two-part belt D D, which,when employed for that purpose, is secured to the sides of the shield and carried over the horses back and buckled, a'sindicated in Fig. 2.

I am aware that itis not new with me to employ devices for preventing masturbation in stallions, and I therefore lay no claim,broadly, to such an appliance. Any device designed to accomplish the purpose in question which at all interferes with the stallions urinating is of course objectionable, and inj uriousto the animal. In extending his penis in the attempt to urinate, if it comes in contact with a blunt substance or with any kind of a device placed over or under the sheath, the animal will instinctively withdraw the member, and in consequence thereof retain the urine, to his serious injury; or if, notwithstanding the obstruction, the attempt to urinate is persisted in the urine will be spattered over the ground and the legs and body of the animal, and sufficient of it retained to produce injurious results.

My invention is intended to overcome objections such as above mentioned, and also to prevent the animal from flapping, rubbing, irritating, or exciting his penis on or over his belly in front of his sheath, so that masturbation or abuse will be avoided.

My appliance may be worn by the stallion While lying down with the same case and comfort as when standing or traveling.

Having thus described my invention, what I ICU claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters prevented when secured in position in front I 5 of and around the sheath of the animal, substantially as set forth.

3. The shield A, having rearward extensions, and combined with the guard B, having braces c a, substantially as set forth.

Signed at Cobleskill, in the county of Schoharie and State of New York, this 15th day of June, A. D.'1887.

IRVING W. BENEDICT.

Witnesses:

POWHATTAN GOTI, E. B. HARD. 

